Tag: Young Learners

Using students work is a great use of students work for further consolidation of target language. Making assessment fun I work in a school and system which loves to assess students. Unfortunately, I think this seems to be the same in many countries. So our students don’t have to do too many tests one way we assess them is through […]

Arts & Crafts are a great way to consolidate new vocabulary with young learners. Young learners can develop a multitude of skills when doing Arts & Crafts (and as Napoleon Dynamite says “Everybody needs skills man”) – speaking skills, motor skills, new process language. In a recent lesson teaching ‘clothes’ to a class of young learners, we made a clothesline using […]

Using storytelling with young learners is a great way to put language into a fun context. I recently used Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson with a group of young learners. The students (and I) had great fun. I split the story into sections, about 2 or 3 pages long. I was them able to focus on the language […]

Excitement Management My tutors on my CELTYL were really focused on this aspect of the class. They made us think about the type of activity, specifically how the students would react by it. We classified activities as ‘stirrers’ and ‘settlers’. When planning classes we would alternate activities so that students would get stirred up and excited, the next activity settled […]

Using gamification in the classroom for managing young learners. Gamification in the classroom is an excellent approach to classroom management. This is particularly true with young learners. Adding a competitive element to a learning environment with young learners can add motivation, improve behavioural problems. It can also encourage extra language. I divide my classes up into teams, each team can […]

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